The G-man between Half Life 1 and 2?

Half-Life Series
#1

There are many things I wonder about with the G-man, but something I hope is discussed in the upcoming game(s) is what the G-man did between the time Gordon walks into that glowy green ball and the time that Gordon wakes up in the train to City 17/Nova Prospekt.

What did the G-man do in that intervening time? What brought me to this question is that I was thinking about that horrendous fanfic of Opposing Force I was writing that stalled before I could formulate a plot… If the events of OF are canon (let’s say that the majority of the events are, for the sake of argument), then, after the G-man puts Gordon in stasis, he also transport Adrian somewhere. My horrendous fanfic had Adrian waking up in the Aperture Science Enrichment Facility where he was to be jailed inside of the glass box.

When GLaDOS realizes that he’s there, she dispatches a team to go collect him, but the Combine come before they can get there and the 7-Hour War begins. They try to stop the invasion themselves, but GLaDOS has other ideas and a countdown begins with GLaDOS flooding the facility with a deadly neurotoxin. The test subjects, including Adrian, are safe in their “relaxation vaults”. To stop GLaDOS, they install a morality core, but it’s too late. The countdown reaches zero and the neurotoxin floods the facility and kills the personnel…and the Combine that are in the facility.

But that’s as far as I got.

tl;dr, My question is, what do you think the G-man did during the intervening time between the events of Half Life 1 and 2? Just sit and observe? Facility the invasion? Give Alyx the plans for DOG? I’d like to hear some ideas. :slight_smile:

#2

i think he probably went to san sndreas to hustle sum bitches.

but srsly, the gman most likely was doing more jobs for his employers. he collect people from different planets and shit.

also as he like to mention or show. time affects him differently than it does most other beings in the universe. he has a tendency to not seem to age or suffer and side affects.

the limit of things he would’ve done is limited only by valve and ahem… mediocre… fan fiction.

p.s.

i would be interested in reading the fan fic if you want someone to help edit it

#3

Seeing as Valve has stated that nothing is true, everything is permitted I guess it’s up to us wether or not OF is canon right now. None of the “true” HL games discard it I think…

But on the subject of G-Man I would probably say he was out in the galaxy, either scouting new “recruits” or using them in events as he used Gordon in HL2. I don’t really think he was still on Earth anyway as I seems to get the feeling that he is only involved in major events that changes everything on a global scale, and as we know none event that would classify as such happened after the 7-Hour War ended and humanity was suppressed.

#4

What I’d rather like to know is what Gordon did? Sleep? :smiley:

#5

Gordon’s trip between the end of HL1 and the beginning of HL2 was instantaneous.

As for what the G-man was up to, he probably did what always does. He watched.

#6

Maybe he did “things” to gordon when he was asleep. and if op4 is canon then maybe he put gordon and shepard in weird positions with each other while they were sleeping and then took pictures to blackmail them into working for him in the future :smiley:

#7

Totally

#8

I think he was just masturbateing all the time :expressionless:

#9

He probably worked with Breen to get him into the Administrator office, kept an eye on the remaining BM scientists, or just chilled in Vegas.

#10

well as you know eli says in his lab its been a good ten years since i have seen you

#11

He obviously got GMod 9.
He’s one of the mingebags! :fffuuu:
Goddamn mingebags… :frowning:

#12

… right.

#13

I think everybody can back me up when I call bullshit.

#14

Eli never explicitly said 10 years, but valve has implied it was somewhere around 10-20 years that had passed, so he’s not completely wrong.

#15

Right. Alyx was “a child” at the time of the Black Mesa incident and is presumbly somewhere in her early to mid-twenties in Half Life 2. So we can assume somewhere between 10 and 20 years have passed, but that’s about as good an indication as I think we get.

#16

That sucks for him. The only times he’s been able to sleep since the morning of the resonance cascade have been when he’s knocked out. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Combine are an hallucination brought on from a mixture of serve head trauma and sleep deprivation. :fffuuu:

#17

Depending on how long Half-Life 1 is in terms of days he has probably gone five or maybe six days without sleep.

Half-Life 2 is around three days and two nights long if I’m not mistaken. Episode 1 is probably happening on the third day as well. What I can’t decide upon is wether or not a night has passed during the time between Episode 1 and 2, or the third night being somewhere in Episode 2 (like when you’re down in the mines).

Anyone else have any clue?

#18

I bet Valve has thought about Gordon’s sleep issue. So it just miiight be possible they open Episode 3 with a ‘fade in’ of Gordon sitting/napping on the helicopter, and Alyx being the pilot (and an obsessed and emotional wreck).

#19

Who the hell would let Alyx pilot a helicopter in her condition?

#20

Doesn’t matter, she outranks everybody.

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